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Unit 165 The Strand Shopping Centre Bootle L20 4SZ

DC/2025/01484Approved

Approved on 7 November 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use from retail (Use Class E(a)) to use as a public toilet, WC (Sui Generis)

Submitted
25 September 2025
Ward
Linacre Ward
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Nov

Decided in 43 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Unit 165 The Strand Shopping Centre Bootle L20 4SZ. Sefton has handled 4,268 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Sefton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Linacre Ward. We hold 177 applications in total for the L20 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
L20 4SZ
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2025

Planning decision

Case officer
Catherine Lewis

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Bootle and Waterloo HMO
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Sefton

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